#prehistroic

[leomitchellart]

Inktober 2023 no.28 - “Sparkle”  ✨

It’s funny how, out of all the prehistoric, mythical and other strange creatures in ‘Ark: Survival Evolved’, the Liopleurodon is the only one that’s actually magical. So much so that it sparkles! ✨🤩✨I managed to tame one on The Island, I called him Linus. 

I literally had no idea until last week that its inclusion and abilities in-game was all a massive ‘Charlie the Unicorn’ reference!

#inktober #inktober 2023 #inktober2023 #sparkle #prehistroic #Ark Survival Evolved #Ark #liopleurodon #ink #ark survival ascended #marine #ocean

[leaf-thief]

Deinotherium thraceiensis (Kovachev, 1964), Miocene, Ezerovo, Plovdiv District - The Entrance hall of the Sofia University Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology!

#leaf-thief oc #zoology #deinotherium #paleontology #prehistroic #fossil #museum

[thetrespasserfrontier]

Prehistoric Insects of Sorna

Insect Cloning

In addition to Dinosaurs and other prehistoric vertebrates, InGen cloned several species of prehistoric insects. The extraction techniques used to clone from insects trapped in amber sometimes yielded genomes from species other than chordates. Sometimes the DNA taken from amber was grown and resulted in species such as Meganeura and Meganeuropsis. These were ancient dragonfly species with much larger wingspans than those found today. Over two feet long. Another species was Arthropleura, the largest land arthropod. Similar to a Millipede, it munched rotting vegetation and grew up to six feet long. InGen figured out they could be used for biowaste processing in addition to the Compsognathus. Another insect, a springtail called Rhyniella, was bred. Half an inch long, it lived in the soil. InGen found them more of a curiosity than anything else. The insect species bred may not be very apparent when visiting the island, but they are part of what constitutes Sorna's prehistoric ecosystem.

Donna Gillman: Insect Specialist

InGen maintains an Insect Labs facility dedicated to the study of prehistoric invertebrates, as well as some native Sorna species. One f their most dedicated employees is a woman named Donna Gillman. Donna has three main areas of expertese --- amber analysis, species classification, and specimen collection. She takes her work very seriously and a thirty-four book library occupies her office. One of her jobs is to identify which insect species is in an amber sample. She looks for markers such as eye type, body section size, and limb count in the case of arachnids and other arthropods. Sometimes the DNA in an amber sample belongs to an insect instead of a vertebrate. When these are cloned, it is up to Donna to identify the prehistroic species. She has particular interest in special-niche beetles. Sometimes Donna goes into the Sorna wilderness to collect specimens. One of her methods is to gas an area known to be home to a specific species, and going in after to collect the unconsious insect(s). One of the labs at the facility is filled with cages holding live insects. Glass aquariums hold multiple species and insect food. Species which do not get along are kept separately; the prehistoric fire ants are kept in their own space due to their aggressiveness. On her days off, Donna spends time reading books on insects past and present. She turns out the lights, and imagines herself in a micro-world of invertebrates, lost in a canopy of grass and a floor of earth.

#jurassicpark #islasorna #trespasser #trescom #paleontology #insects #invertebrates #arthropleura

[maygalodon]

what's your favorite animal/what kind of animal do you see yourself as?

Thank you for the ask! hope your day is lovely!

(from this post here! feel free to ask anything!)

I absolutely love Prehistroic sea creatures! my favourite are Coelacanths, those sneaky buggers just came back again like?? what??? amazing?? love those sneaky buggers

And I see myself once again as a sea creature! probably a coral because i get insanely stressed but also just love to vibe, can’t go wrong with just sitting there vibing,

or i’d love to be a sea anemone, just chill out and let the clown fish bring you snacks!

[technicallycoolalpaca]

Can jBPM provide any value when building an airline ticketing system?

Background

I have recently joined a relatively new project to replace an old system that stuggles under high load and has become difficult to maintain.

This new system has failed to satisfy any of its goals so far. Sure, it is using modern technologies, is deployed to AWS, is no longer using Access (!!!) as the database and instead uses RDS.

Also it is no longer a monolith and it has been divided into a few smaller services.

However it is still not performant enough and it continues to be a stuggle to develop and maintain (many methods and classes have many nested if/else statements, nested for loops, and so on to the point that their cyclomatic complexity is through the roof and raises all kinds of alarms on our CI/CD pipeline).

In the old days, when SOAP and WS-* was all the hype, I had read a few articles about BPMN and jBPM here and there but in practice I don't know what problem they actually solve and how they do it and I was wondering if employing it could mitigate some of our problems?

Yesterday I watched a course about the Drools rule engine and I am 100% sure that it can make our validation system much more easy to understand and eliminate many of our issues with cyclomatic complexity and maintainance. However I still don't know if and how jBPM and BPMN can help us improve the design, implementation, and maintainability of our system further.

Overview of the system

The system is not actually for airline ticketing but is very similar. For confidentially/IP obligations I can't discuss it in public so let's assume it is an airline ticketing system.

We have 2 categories of external parties: 1) Travel Agencies and 2) Airlines.

A travel agency submits a booking request to one of our services in a prehistroic binary format that's a pain to work with and our service parses and converts it into well structured JSON documents. Let's call this service "Decoding Service".

The Decoding Service forwards the request to our core system, the "Ticketing Service". This service performs a plethora of validation rules on the request. If the request was valid it returns a 200 success message back to the "Decoding Service" which will pass it on to the agency, letting them know that we have successfuly received and validated their request.

A scheduler will eventually grab the booking request, perform a host of other validations on the request, find the relevant airline and forward a modified version of the request to the airline. The airline may respond with 200 (request received) or 400 (bad request). If we get 400 back, we will mark the booking request as failed in the databse. If we get 200 back, we mark it as "waiting for response from airline".

Assuming we get 200 back, the airline will eventually send another request back to us that contains the result of processing our booking request. Even this result might indicate that the booking has failed.

Another scheduler will eventually pick this result up from the database, performs some validations to make sure it doesn't contain any information that conflicts with the actual/original booking request that was made by the travel agency. If everything looks good, the response is sent to travel agency.

The system is much more complex. For example the airline might contain some information in the booking result that indicates that the customer is eligible for some sort of bonus (e.g. Sky Miles). If this happens, and the customer at the travel agency decides to use the bonus, another cycle of request/response messages will occur.

Would incorporating jBPM into our "Ticketing Service" provide us with any benefits?

So far I have decided to migrate our validation rules to Drools.

But would adding jBPM to our system help us improve it even further? If yes, how?

ّFYI, or services are built using Spring Boot and our API uses JSON over HTTP for communication (probably maturity level 1 RESTful).

Thanks in advance.

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[raccoonfootproductions]

Great news Coon found out that Comcast owned DWA has brought back Croods 2 from cancellation. The bad news we'll have to wait till September 2020 to see the prehistroic families triumphant return found out on comingsoon

Good thing we have the Netflix series to keep it in the public consciousness, or else that’d be way too long to wait for a sequel.

I sure hope Chris Sanders is still on board...

#samshapiro1

[dredfunn]

Denisovan realistic pencil reconstruction part 5 #dredfunn #freddunn #wip #workinprogess #illustrator #illustration #youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #art #artistsoninstagram #artist #artistsofinstagram #artwork #comiccon #realisticdrawing #realisticart #pencildrawing #pencil #pencilart #denisovan #denisovans #denisovanart #neanderthal #ancienthumans #prehistroic #prehistoricart https://www.instagram.com/p/ByL_2eqAH8U/?igshid=13vktipndkpah

#dredfunn #freddunn #wip #workinprogess #illustrator #illustration #youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #art #artistsoninstagram #artist #artistsofinstagram #artwork #comiccon #realisticdrawing #realisticart #pencildrawing #pencil #pencilart #denisovan #denisovans #denisovanart #neanderthal #ancienthumans #prehistroic #prehistoricart

[moszeuchreets]

Scientific Name: Websteroprion armstrongi Diet: Carnivore Date: Devonian (400 mya) Size: 1 meter long? Additional Information: The genus name is named after the death metal band, Cannibal Corpse.

Artwork by James Ormiston

#extinct animal of the day #extinct animal #prehistrory #prehistroic #extinct #cannibal corpse #death metal #Websteroprion armstrongi #Websteroprion #worm #death worm

[valosalo]

Drawing by M. W. Haidinger drawing depicts the fall of the Hraschina meteorite based on eyewitness accounts. 1751

Dataisnature

#dataisnature #data is nature #widmanstätten pattern #prehistroic messages #prehistroic